HDD has less space while its empty

[DietzDiet]

I installed an old hdd with windows vista and a buncha other crap on it to my pc recently, than after i installed it i deleted everything from the hdd but i still see half of the hdd is used up even tho nothing is inside of it? Why?

 

 

screenshot below (slightly more used than before cuz i just installed csgo on it)

[bmx6454]

did you format it? or just drag everything to the trashbin? if the latter, you have to empty the trashbin before the full size is shown sometimes, at least in my experience.

[SpookyCitrus]

You need to format the drive, not just right click + Delete everything. If it still shows the drive like this after an actual format that would mean the drive is bad. If it's a standard mechanical HDD that is like a 250GB or 260GB just toss it, it's not worth even attempting to use. They're at least 15 years old and most are either failing or have failed.

[PDifolco]

20 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

I installed an old hdd with windows vista and a buncha other crap on it to my pc recently, than after i installed it i deleted everything from the hdd but i still see half of the hdd is used up even tho nothing is inside of it? Why?

 

 

screenshot below (slightly more used than before cuz i just installed csgo on it)

You should fully reformat it, and maybe it has some other hidden partition, look in Disk partitions utilities

[DietzDiet]

1 hour ago, bmx6454 said:

did you format it? or just drag everything to the trashbin? if the latter, you have to empty the trashbin before the full size is shown sometimes, at least in my experience.

i right click delete 

[DietzDiet]

52 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

You should fully reformat it, and maybe it has some other hidden partition, look in Disk partitions utilities

how do i format

[Kilrah]

Right click on drive, format....

[PDifolco]

5 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

how do i format

Type "Disk" in windows searh bar and get to Disk management tool

R click on the disk/partition you wanna format, there's a Format option, but first delete any other partition and "extend" the main one (in the other options)

 

 

[DietzDiet]

16 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Right click on drive, format....

quick format?

[DietzDiet]

16 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Type "Disk" in windows searh bar and get to Disk management tool

R click on the disk/partition you wanna format, there's a Format option, but first delete any other partition and "extend" the main one (in the other options)

 

 

wat

[DietzDiet]

16 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Type "Disk" in windows searh bar and get to Disk management tool

R click on the disk/partition you wanna format, there's a Format option, but first delete any other partition and "extend" the main one (in the other options)

 

 

can you explain it as if u were explaining to a five year old

[PDifolco]

21 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

can you explain it as if u were explaining to a five year old

Errm I won't explain how to format a drive to a 5 yr old lol

Can you get to Disk management software in Windows ? Post a pic then

 

[Kilrah]

44 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

quick format?

 

Sure.

[DietzDiet]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Sure.

alr lol

[DietzDiet]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Sure.

nooooooooo

[DietzDiet]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Sure.

does it delete EVERYTHING on the disk? my csgo stats :(((

[DietzDiet]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

Errm I won't explain how to format a drive to a 5 yr old lol

Can you get to Disk management software in Windows ? Post a pic then

 

a mod is telling me to just right click the disk and format it from file explorer but i think it deletes everything lol, i just wanna delete everything than csgo

[PDifolco]

7 minutes ago, DietzDiet said:

a mod is telling me to just right click the disk and format it from file explorer but i think it deletes everything lol, i just wanna delete everything than csgo

But your drive (Disk2) is 60GB max why did you expect it to be bigger ??

[DietzDiet]

2 hours ago, PDifolco said:

But your drive (Disk2) is 60GB max why did you expect it to be bigger ??

pretty sure thats my usb 

[PDifolco]

1 minute ago, DietzDiet said:

pretty sure thats my usb 

Ok I'm lost now ...

Looks like you have a 250gb drive and a 60gb external disk, so what's the issue??

[DietzDiet]

20 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Ok I'm lost now ...

Looks like you have a 250gb drive and a 60gb external disk, so what's the issue??

250gb hard drive had like half its storage used after i "deleted" everything

[DietzDiet]

20 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Ok I'm lost now ...

Looks like you have a 250gb drive and a 60gb external disk, so what's the issue??

now im trying to figure out how to fix it without deleting my csgo in the hdd

[DietzDiet]

40 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Ok I'm lost now ...

Looks like you have a 250gb drive and a 60gb external disk, so what's the issue??

yaeh think im gonna delete everything on it the way the other dude told me including csgo thanks man